> it's cheating for me to ask for help from the SE reps
> Stay away from webmaster-y subjects at bars, restaurants and parties
Those are numbers 2 & 3 of my top 3 personal rules. I put a lot of emphasis on not tainting a good friendship with work-related issues --and most certainly not specific site problems.
As for "stay away from webmaster-y subjects," we try and it sometimes lasts for an hour, sometimes 15 minutes. For those of us on either side of The Game, it's what we live & breathe daily, so it's hard work NOT to drift into the topic.
But the A#1 rule is to honor a confidence. If an SE rep says it's "off the record" then it's OFF the record. If I suspect that something said was meant to be heard only by those around the table then I will do them the courtesy of asking them if that was meant for public consumption rather than running to the nearest forum to blab.
December 08, 2006

>not so sure it is the "most talked about"
I was at the other end of the Strip (NYNY) and while a few session gaffs and (mis)comments made it back for dinner conversation, everything seemed kinda tame this year. Oh, except the lock-down on invitations to the Y party, I heard lots of bitching about that. November 20, 2006

i don't do the conference itself but the usual group will be in the vegas bars doing the, err, usual, ummm, networking. we should be easy to find, just listen for mackin. see you there. November 10, 2006

As I understand it, a previous copyright filing just makes it easier to establish proof-of-ownership if/when trouble arises. Many assume that you have to pay-by-the-piece but I once ran across an article written by a photographer who basically copied whole folders of photos to a cd and sent that. Anyway, I bookmarked the link he gave:
http://www.copyright.gov/register/visual.html...October 30, 2006